Exploring QCD with Heavy Ion Collisions
arXiv:nucl-ex/0309002 · doi:10.1142/9789812702777_0001
Abstract
After decades of painstaking research, the field of heavy ion physics has reached an exciting new era. Evidence is mounting that we can create a high temperature, high density, strongly interacting ``bulk matter'' state in the laboratory -- perhaps even a quark-gluon plasma. This strongly interacting matter is likely to provide qualitative new information about the fundamental strong interaction, described by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). These lectures provide a summary of experimental heavy ion research, with particular emphasis on recent results from RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In addition, we will discuss what has been learned so far and the outstanding puzzles.
30 pages, invited Heavy Ion Summary Lectures at the Lake Louise Winter Institute, February 2003, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
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- Evidence from d+Au measurements for final-state suppression of high hadrons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC
- Hadron production in heavy ion collisions: Fragmentation and recombination from a dense parton phase
- Particle-type dependence of azimuthal anisotropy and nuclear modification of particle production in Au+Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV
- Absence of Suppression in Particle Production at Large Transverse Momentum in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV d+Au Collisions
- Transverse Momentum Spectra in Au+Au and d+Au Collisions at =200 GeV and the Pseudorapidity Dependence of High p Suppression
- Scaling properties of proton and anti-proton production in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au + Au collisions
- Centrality dependence of charged hadron transverse momentum spectra in d+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
- Charged hadron transverse momentum distributions in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
- J/Psi Production in Au-Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider